“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.” John 15:5.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
We have been considering the conversation of Jesus with Me that included you at the Passover Seder meal the night before He gave His life that you might live forever. But everything said at that meal was leading up to that prayer and contained the foundation for it.
In this life lesson I want to take you on a journey in Me to the very source and fountainhead of what your relationship with Me can and should be. From the beginning I have endeavored to draw you into My rest in a oneness with Me that surpasses earthly understanding and human wisdom where we rule and reign together. Very few have understood what a true relationship with Me is that I envisioned from the start but its full revelation cannot be understood without the mystery that has been hidden in Christ throughout the ages that is now realized in each of you who believe.
Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God, that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His sanctified ones, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:25-27. . . For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete. Colossians 2:9-10.
When Jesus joined divinity and humanity in one seamless flow of life, the light of life, He showed you My plan of unique oneness from the start. I have called this Covenant and I introduced it to the first man and woman in the oneness of sanctified marriage in an earthly shadow of the heavenly espousal of spirits. The two became one flesh though unique and of varied talents and fruitfulness but each was there for and with the other. But beyond and above that, they were joined with Me in love. I am the source of all love, life, beauty and oneness, of all that is true life that is life indeed, not what some are living now like a dried up and withered branch that is no longer joined with its source.
In linking with Me you have a flow of the light of life that will never dry up, diminish, become old, or cease, like the wellspring leaping up within you to join with the fountain of life in Me so that you would never thirst again. Remember? Jesus spoke to the woman by the well about this. And at the feast of Tabernacles, He called all who were thirsty for life, abundant life till it overflows in rivers out of you (the gifts of the Holy Spirit) to a thirsty world, to come to Him and drink, for in Him you are made one with Me and are complete.
And to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:19.
Your life, each day, each night, can become the joy of drawing up living water from the springs of Salvation (Yeshuah), for just as I quenched the thirst of My people in the desert by pouring rivers of water out of the rock so now you can draw it from the rock of our Salvation (Yeshuah) for He is with you always and His grace and love will never run dry. Of His fullness you have all received grace upon grace.
And all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. 1 Corinthians 10:3-4.
No one can take My place with you for I am your source and the very core of your existence. But also no one else can take your place with Me for you are uniquely made and planned from the beginning to fit with Me as no one else can or ever will. My Son likened this to the members of a body jointly fitted and working together as a whole to be brought to the maturity and perfection of Christ in every part.
There is so much My Son revealed to you about Me and your relationship as defined in and through Him with Me, a seamless oneness that is a flow of knowing the goodness that is in Me which can fill you and is you as well. Everything I made was good. I did not finish the creation of each day until I judged it good, and I did not complete all until I judged it very good.
Jesus revealed Me to you while walking among you as one like you. He showed you My heart in the works He did and the Words He said, for in these latter days I have spoken to you in My Son. But there is so much more, Jesus also showed you the relationship you can have with Me as Son of Man. When My Son took flesh, as we have discussed in prior Life Lessons, He emptied Himself of His powers as God that were inherent in Him as One God with Me and limited Himself to acting within the boundaries of human capacity. And in this He showed you the intimate flow of relationship with Me that produces a life of great power and beauty which is fruitful in good works—the joy of a sanctified life lived in Me filled by My Holy Spirit dwelling in your spirit in the oneness of Covenant love. And Jesus wanted to raise you up to this life so earnestly that He emptied Himself of all He had into you in giving His life for you.
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9.
When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him. And He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.” Luke 22:14-15.
And at that Last Supper, He poured everything you could hold at that time into you and what you were not ready yet to hold, He gave you the promise of the Spirit to come from Me through Him to teach you all things and lead you to all truth and fill you to all My fullness by My Spirit dwelling in you.
I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you. John 16:12-15.
We join in the spirit, not in the flesh, though it is the flow of that inner connection that will determine your quality of life and your health, youthfulness, and fruitfulness in the flesh. And it is here that My Son introduced the concept of the vine and the branches to His disciples and thus to each of you who believe through their words.
“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He cleans (purges) so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. John 15:1-5.
Jesus introduced an amazing concept of oneness and fruitfulness here. If you think of a grapevine you think of it as one functioning whole, in fact, unlike a tree, it is very hard in a mature vine to differentiate where the vine stops and a branch begins. But you will know by where the grapes are hanging, for the branches alone have the pleasure of producing the fruit of the vine in the world, but the branch cannot produce without the vine but the vine can produce no fruit in the world without a branch.
In this image you see what your dominion authority is all about and why Adam’s rejection and disconnection with Me had such disastrous results. From the beginning I empowered man to be fruitful and increase, but like a branch on the vine, the flow that produced this fruitful increase was the source you came forth from, Me. Your dominion authority, for you were the one producing the fruit, came however, only in your pulling the power in which you walked so fruitfully from Me.
Do you see this relationship? I do not dominate you, I empower you. Linked with Me everything you need to pull into your life is there in unceasing abundant flow that will never cease. I am here for you and you are here for Me. And I give you wisdom and teach you how to profit and the way you should go, I give you the power to make wealth, by the work of your own hands and the genius of your mind that I have so powerfully and intricately created and which I have anointed and given you the mind of Christ, the anointing and the anointed One. But it is I alone who strengthen, empower and keep the life in you.
But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Deuteronomy 8:18.
But it is you alone that makes the decision how you will use that power.
If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. John 15:6.
Detached from your source going after false gods your life will be stolen, killed, and destroyed for within the false gods, the life of the worldly who are trying to be their own source, like Adam and Eve, there is nothing there to tap into that gives the true life and so they wither and perish. And that defines the curse, there is no blessing to tap into, no flow from the source from which you have severed yourself by your own free will, and you find only sickness, grief, poverty, and death. And Adam set the path for many to follow in the fruitless way of the world.
It shall come about if you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God. Deuteronomy 8:19-20.
My Words are life to those who find them and health to all their flesh.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. John 15:7-8.
And that is how you remain in Me and I in you, you abide in My Words that are your source of creation, sanctification, and rebirth from above. I have the Words of eternal life and you find that life in My Son, who is My Word joined with your humanity in love. I have espoused you to Me forever in faithfulness and love.
Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. John 15:9-11.
The source of all creation is My Word.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. John 1:1-4.
To know Me, you must know My Word, for I am My Word. I am love and I am light, so My Word is love and light. In abiding in My Word there is fruitfulness and joy and there is freedom. When you are attached to Me as the branch to the Vine you are free of fear, toil, unfruitfulness, and lack. You have linked in Me with the core of who you are and who you are made to be. In Me you find all you need for life and godliness so you can live a beautiful life, the most beautiful life ever lived. Like Jesus.
I love you. We will continue this conversation with Jesus in our next Life Lesson. You have much to think about today, but come and share it with Me. One we are and One we can be. Unique, but one, and that is where the supernatural begins in your life.